February 3, 2009
STEPHEN P. YOUNGER NAMED PRESIDENT-ELECT OF STATE BAR
ASSOCIATION
Younger
Assumes Office of President-Elect on June 1, 2009
ALBANY – The New York State Bar Association announced today
that Stephen P. Younger a partner at the law
firm of Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler, LLP
in New York City, has been named president-elect of the 76,000-member
organization. Younger was elected on
January 30th by the House of Delegates,the
Association’s decision and policy-making body and assumes the
title “president-elect” on June 1,
2009. He will begin his one-year term
as president on June 1, 2010.
Current president-elect
Michael E. Getnick of Utica(Getnick,
Livingston, Atkinson, Gigliotti & Priore, LLP), assumes the office
of president on June 1, 2009.
As a partner at Patterson
Belknap, Younger is a leading commercial litigator, well-known for his
work in international arbitration. He
regularly represents financial institutions, mutual funds, hedge funds,
pension funds and venture capital firms in securities
disputes. Prior to joining the firm in
1983, Younger, of Glen Ridge, New Jersey, served as law clerk to the
late Hon. Hugh R. Jones, Associate Judge for the New York Court of
Appeals.
Younger graduated cum
laude from Harvard University in
1977 and earned his law degree magna cum laude
from Albany Law Schoolin
1982, where he was editor-in-chief of the Albany Law Review.
A 26-year member of the
Association, Younger has served as a member-at-large of the
Association’s Executive Committee since
2007. He served as chair of the State
Bar’s Commercial and Federal Litigation Section from
2005-2006. He is also past chair of the section’s Securities
Litigation Committee and Pro Bono and Public Interest
Committee. He is a fellow of The New
York Bar Foundation and an active member of the Association’s
Committee on Membership.
In addition to his State
Bar activities, Younger is counsel to the New York State Commission on
Judicial Nominations. He is a member of
the First Department Judicial Screening Committee and serves on the
advisory committee to the commercial division of the New York State
Supreme Court. He served as transition director for New York Attorney
General Andrew W. Cuomo and as a member of former Chief Judge Judith S.
Kaye’s ADR Task Force.
As a member of the New
York City Bar, Younger worked on the Committee on Arbitration and as
secretary of the Task Force on Civil Courts. He is a member of the New York State Unified Court System ADR
Advisory Committee and the New York State Supreme Court Advisory
Committee, Commercial Division.
Younger serves as a
mediator for the United States District Court, Southern and Eastern
Districts of New York; executive committee member of the CPR Institute
for Dispute Resolution; and treasurer of the Historical Society of the
NYS Courts. He is a member of the
Congress of Fellows, and the Center for International Legal
Studies.
A trustee of Albany Law School,
and past president of the law school’s National Alumni Council, he
is a frequent lecturer and author in the fields of securities
litigation, commercial arbitration and international dispute
resolution.
The 76,000-member New
York State Bar Association is the official statewide organization of
lawyers in New
Yorkand the largest
voluntary state bar association in the nation. Founded in 1876, State
Bar programs and activities have continuously served the public and
improved the justice system for more than 130 years.
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